Category: Mount Lemmon Fire

  • Out Of Sorts: A Short Lemmonade Today

    I’m feeling out of sorts, depressed, angry and hostile, pissed and peeved, fed-up, annoyed and aggravated. I don’t suffer fools, but then there are so many, I allow a few to enter. As I age I see that I am more intolerant of foibles, less empathetic, irritable, impatient, anxious that I…

  • Intellectually Malnourished, Withered Lemmondade

    At times in life I have experienced a feeling of being intellectually malnourished. That is not exactly what it is. I will try again; it is a sense that I cannot go beyond a certain level of ratiocination, that I am not bright enought to see further or see beyond.…

  • Mt. Lemmon Burns

    Mt. Lemmon burns. It sends out smoke so blossomed in bloom that the sky is a corsage of roses of varying hues. It is volcanic as well. The Catalina Mountains are not rugged nor fierce to my eye, merely judgmental. Like fire, they simply are — unexplained. What I would…

  • Some More Lemmon Meringue

    At 63 I have not done much in life or accomplished much. Does it really matter that one went to an ivy league school or that one was an alcoholic in the grand scheme of things? Doesn’t a defeated man feel as much if not more pain as a successful…